The Disclaimer states, "This book
is a work of fiction. Any similarities between actual persons living or dead
is purely coincidental and absolutely unintended."

Reviews

Very interesting, March 16, 2004 Reviewer: A reader
in LouisianaThis book is very funny and once I started reading it I had
a hard time putting it down just because I wanted to know
what was going to happen left. For a fiction it is very
funny and you have to wonder just how much of it is really
true.

Sex, Violence, and Revenge, January 28, 2003
Reviewer: D.C. Jackson in TexasFate overcomes all. Maggie is a very strong woman, who put
up with alot, and finally gained her freedom from an abusive
relationship, through a twist of fate!!! Excellent reading
for all women. A.J. Farthing writes with such a depth, it
makes you wonder how much of the book is based on true life.
I cant wait to read her next book.

Farthing's characters are the real thing,
not politically correct by any means. They show the savage reality of life. A. D. Rood, N.Y. December
20, 2002

A fast paced story line that compels the reader to love
or hate the characters. B. Hale, MT January 17,
2003

I bought "Pig Food Salad" & "The Legend of Percy
Fink, Volume 1". I couldn't put "Pig Food Salad" down until I finished
it. The characters were so real. Maggies life spoke to me, telling
me alot about many women who had to endure abuse and why they endured
it. "Percy Fink" was easy reading, a bit silly, a bit rough but
cute tool Can't wait for Volume 2." Reader from Southeastern, PA
1/25/03

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Dear Filmmaker:

Pig Food Saladtells the riveting and often heartbreaking story of Maggie and her
family who scrape by as best they can in the hills of upstate New
York.

While she is constantly surprised and delighted by her six
helpful and bright children, Maggie finds that her life with her
abusive, alcoholic husband, John, is degenerating into a kind of 24-hour
nightmare. When her best friend disappears after assaulting her
cheating spouse, Maggie takes a factory job in Charlotte’s memory and
against her husband’s wishes. She took the job to help pay the bills,
but she never thought that steamy relationship with a coworker would
help her find the courage and self-esteem to stand up to John and begin
living her life on her own terms.

Readers may expect a romance or a smarmy memoir, but this
novel is a brutally honest look at the good, bad, and above all true lives of rural women
and their families reality TV – this is reality reading.

Pig Food Salad
is written in an urgent, fast-paced style. The reader feels as if
Maggie doesn’t have a lot of time to tell her story between shifts at
the factory and caring for six kids and a husband, and wants to listen
to every word. This book, once begun, is impossible to put down.
Through believable and fascinating characterization, the author paints
Maggie’s world in quick, careful strokes, making an act as simple as
piercing one’s ears or drinking a cup of tea seem like the ultimate
rebellion.

With echoes of movies like
North Country, Enough and
Thelma and Louise, the book
appeals to those who would empower women everywhere to end abuse and
stand for themselves.

Author:
A.J. Farthing has also
written,

The
Legend of Percy Fink available now

Helen's
Daughters available November 2007

AJ Farthing was born in
Detroit, Michigan and grew up in the foothills of the Catskills in New York
state during the 50's and 60's. She spent her young adult years in a turbulent
marriage and raised six children amid the vineyards of the Finger Lakes.
Her stories are drawn from life experiences and personalities she has met
over the years. She now resides in the Piney Woods of deep east Texas with
her husband and works as a nurse in a rural community hospital.